Mediterranean Style Quinoa and Chicken Breast Salad Recipe

Protein Packed with a Homemade Sundried Tomato Dressing

Salad is big news in my house. There is a big plate of one kind or another on my table almost every day, sometimes twice. I'm always pondering some new twist, a new combo and more importantly a way to integrate a healthy, high-energy punch. A new staple in my refrigerator? Maple Leaf Protonis. Protinis are a great source of protein and packed with flavour. They can be used as a healthy on-the-go snack or they can be incorporated into an everyday meal. They are a 'ready to go protein pack' that can elevate your salads into an energy-filled power meal.

Here is a quick and easy salad I whipped up with my Protonis Chicken and Cranberry pack. It makes a perfect lunch or dinner, ready to be enjoyed on the go or served as a fantastic side dish for a weeknight dinner. Try it with my Homemade Sundried Tomato dressing, it takes this salad right over the top!

Nadia has spent the last fifteen plus years working in marketing and advertising as a strategist and digital innovator. She's a blogger, recipe developer, and content creator. She's an amateur photographer and has started to dabble in food styling. She's a bona fide globetrotter, adventurer, and avid traveller. She's a nut-bar-over-the-top dog lover. She finally followed my passion and went to culinary school, pastry school and have taken cooking lessons in a multitude of countries around the world.

She is a voracious food culture consumer. She spends hours in specialty grocery stores, strip mall variety stores, and suburban pockets of Toronto ethnic food stores. She is always on the hunt to find somebody’s grandmother to assist in the kitchen and has been known to haggle cooking lessons from the salesmen’s wife as part of her car purchase incentive because she just had to get a recipe for perfect homemade West Indian curry.

She's Italian and cooking is part of her DNA. Her parents are rock hard old school when it comes to food. They take this stuff seriously. She helped pull 1200 garlic plants out of the ground last year because they’d rather grow their own than buy foreign. This is not a misprint, 1200 plants, she has pics. She is inherently a very creative and experimental cook and really believes that technique and practice are at the heart of every good dish. She firmly believes there is no such thing as people who cannot cook, they just need the right recipe and a great big hug.

She loves to cook but more than that, she loves to teach people about yummy food that’s made with good-for-you ingredients.

She asks way too many questions and can put people to sleep when I start to talk about food. She could go on, but she’d have to check if you were still awake.